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On Sunday 27 March 2005 22:33, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> RW writes:
> > Multiple processors can run multiple processes at the same time. A HT
> > processor can only run two threads from the same process.
>
> This is incorrect.  HT processors don't care where the threads come
> from; it is possible to run threads from two completely different
> processes on the same HT processor.

But what would be the point, that's slower than running with HT turned-off.